Wicca

[Girls_Rule]

Hi

I dunno if there is a wicca thread if there is please move this to it or notify me of it but i just thought that willow and tara do wicca and there must be some followers of wicca around on this site so i thought we could talk and trade notes. blessed be!

- LL xxx

[werewolf123]

Imo tara is a witch ( pre-wiccan) and willow is a Cabbalist.

[Emms]

I don't think that's true werewolf (well the part about Willow being a cabalist.) I never heard her say anything about Jewish teachings (mystical or otherwise) except when she was speaking against Santa. So, how do you come to the conclusion that Willow is a cabalist?

As for me, I'm not Wiccan. I'm Agnostic.

xoxo
Emms

[Girls_Rule]

i think its cos im so young but i dont understand those words xxx

[Emms]

Girls Rule,

Gnostic simply means "spiritual truth seeker" Gnosticism predates Christianity.

It's in my belief that Jesus was a Gnostic. (once again...that's just my belief...please don't write angry PMs )

xoxo
Emms

[Girls_Rule]

cool, well i dont get angry with religions i think we are all intitled to have our own beliefs, im wiccan you see

xxx

[kivrin]

hi there, if you were asking for a wiccann I am. I know you posted it long time ago but if you're still interested....i'm right here.


ETA: wow I've just realized I'd burn really soon if we were some centruries ago. he he being with a girl, believing in magic based in the natural power and not any humanlike god...and really interested in the cientific origin of life. c'mon hurry up, burn me at a stake before I turn into evil.

[Gatito Grande]

While very sad, the Wiccan soldier killed in Afghanistan has---through his wife's constant effort---finally received a pentacle on his tombstone.

Story here

GG Here's to equality (AND an end to war ): Blessed Be! Out

[Willowlover]

Im not wiccan but alot of the wiccan faith is borderlining my own faith.

[Shadowygirl]

I'm Wiccan ! , you know suprisingly reading these posts there are way less Wiccans on this site then I thought there would be

interesting


anyhow don't know what to say other then I'm Wiccan and My parents hated it at first but they are over that now thankfully

April

[Sapphire eyes]

I'm a Wiccan as well I have been since I was 15. I am 23 now, if anyone wants to PM me about anything feel free. Blessed be everyone!

[writerfreak]

Interesting subject. A few friends of mine and I were talking about religion the other day and how it affects our friendship. I personally am Wiccan, they are very Christian. I'm honestly hoping things on here are as well as they are with my group of friends. We never put each other down for our beliefs, it isnt a major subject. We all agree everyone needs to believe in something. No matter how those beliefs differ it doesn't affect our friendship or our closeness. I think I have the best friends on earth.

writerfreak

[midnightmoonsong]

Im wiccan.I think that there are a lot of us out here either in computerville or in the real world.Ive never really had a problem telling people or with acceptance though im sort of like here i am love me if you wish or get the hell out of my life....to a certain extent anyway.
Tara

[Willow Watcher]

I don't know if I would call myself fully Wiccan. I was raised in a Christian home and do not follow my family's beliefs. I however believe there is a higher power. I don't know exactly where it comes from if its inside us or somewhere else. I know I believe in me and the power I have inside to live, love and learn each and everyday.

[summer fairy]

I am a pagen, who believe in exactly what wicca's do. The only difference is that Wiccan's practice it as I just believe it, I have done a few things but only that, I believe that you should be very careful and know exactly what you are doing before you try anything, I think I have only ever done about 4 spells, for a better word, in my entire life, and I have been a pagen since I was 13 years old. I have only ever done a spell when I really needed to though. I guess that does make me a wiccan but I am not sure.

[littlewicca]

Im like summer fairy here, I think wicca is great, i was searching about it on the internet but i really want to look for some good books about it and that i could trust them, I mean I know is not a game and that everithing done has to be very well done, so I dont think to do something is on the internet would be good, right? If some Wiccan knows about a site I can trust please tell me.
Im not a Wiccan as religion, I dont know to much about it to call me in that way

[tazraven]

I like some of the ideas of Wicca, but I myself am not one.

I was born Jewish, and raised in an atheist household. My beliefs border somewhere around Jewish customs, mixed with atheist or agnostic beliefs, with a side dash of wicca, buddhist, or dhaoism spirituality. I think, lol.

~Sara

[COMMA]

Wiccans Settle Military Grave Lawsuit
By SCOTT BAUER
AP
MADISON, Wis. (April 24) - The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on goverment-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.

A settlement between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Wiccans adds the five-pointed star to the list of "emblems of belief" allowed on VA grave markers.

Eleven families nationwide are waiting for grave markers with the pentacle, said Selena Fox, a Wiccan high priestess with Circle Sanctuary in Barneveld, Wis., a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

The settlement calls for the pentacle, whose five points represent earth, air, fire, water and spirit, to be placed on grave markers within 14 days for those who have pending requests with the VA.

The VA sought the settlement in the interest of the families involved and to save taxpayers the expense of further litigation, VA spokesman Matt Burns said. The agency also agreed to pay $225,000 in attorneys' fees and costs.

The pentacle has been added to 38 symbols the VA already permits on gravestones. They include commonly recognized symbols for Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, as well as those for smaller religions such as Sufism Reoriented, Eckiankar and the Japanese faith Seicho-No-Ie.

"This settlement has forced the Bush Administration into acknowledging that there are no second class religions in America, including among our nation's veterans," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represented the Wiccans in the lawsuit.

The American Civil Liberties Union said the agreement also settles a similar lawsuit it filed last year against the VA. In that case, the ACLU represented two other Wiccan churches and three individuals.

VA-issued headstones, markers and plaques can be used in any cemetery, whether it is a national one such as Arlington or a private burial ground like that on Circle Sanctuary's property.

Wicca is a nature-based religion based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons. Variations of the pentacle not accepted by Wiccans have been used in horror movies as a sign of the devil.

PS: One small mistake in the article. It was the Clinton White House that started this fight. Not the Bush White House. CC

[singgirl]

ya know what's funny? I came out as a lesbian. mom was okay. I dated a black girl. mom was fine. I told her I'm Wiccan...NOW I'm going to hell! lol Nothing prior would do it. Good thing I don't believe in hell, eh?

[AmbersSecretAdmirer]

When I was on a Christian chatroom (cos I need a luagh every once in a while) I found it hilarious that upon mentioning the fact that I had at that point finished my Willow and Tara fanfic, they were far more shocked that the couple were Wiccans than their being a lesbian couple.

For me, what a person chooses to believe spiritually is their path and theirs alone and all paths are unique to the walker. However, where I always draw the line (and why I have such a problem with the major religions) are the presumptions that only a particular path is correct and all others are wrong and the idea that one must convince others to leave their paths and join the single one, never understanding that in the meantime these people may very well have been waylaid from their true path and sent on a road that is spiritually damaging.

I have a lot of respect for the Wiccan faith, mostly because it is about nature and respecting the balance. Too many of the big religions see no balance, but see only narrow roads where all must walk or else punishment awaits. It is a strange way to live in my opinion.

[littlewicca]

ok, now i had read some more stuff, and i cant say if im wiccan, i guess i am, i love all what it believes, and i like it. and also, more interestead that when i started.
Is cool to have people who are wiccan at least to chat by msn. and to ask some stuff, i thought i cant study alone, but you totaly can if you are interested.

[EvilKittycatofdoom]

Hi im wiccan i have been since i was 10
umm...
i dont realy practice magic (magick?) cause i never felt the need My mom is cool with it tho

[Dorothy]

*big with the kicking of old threads today*

I call myself Wicca, but I don't really practise it because I believe spells can go awry if you don't know what you are doing. Not in the big, booming, set fire to the bedspread way, but in a more subtle, but still not nice, way.

Have been like this since I was 13, at some points I did practise and at some points I stopped because there was too much negative energy in my life to practise magick propperly.